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A broken City of Portland sewer pipe that left Smith Memorial Student Union temporarily closed Wednesday was initiated by soil erosion, which caused a concrete stormline pipe to fall on the sewer pipe earlier this week.

In an effort to raise public awareness of archaeology in the Portland area, PSU’s Anthropology Department will be holding Archaeology Day events in the South Park Blocks Saturday morning.

Library emeritus professor Joseph Kohut died on Oct.10 due to head injuries sustained from falling off a trail along the Columbia Gorge.

What do 25,000 dead people and 15 of Portland’s finest musical acts have in common? Aside from a mild geographic association, these two unlikely parties will be uniting this Friday for one of the Rose City’s most ambitious recent musical projects.

Happy Go Lucky is the story of a happy person. A really happy person. A person so goddamn chipper that, 10 minutes into the film, I started imagining ways to make her suffer. Rarely have I loathed a character as much as I loathe Poppy.

Retro gamers, your time has come. At least if Capcom has anything to say about it. Recently, the company has been catering to its hardcore, older fan base by reviving long-dormant titles such as 1942 and Bionic Commando–giving them a fresh lick of paint and making them available to download on Xbox Live and the Playstation Network.

Chances are that at some point when you were a kid, you thought about going into space. Dead Space, a new survival horror game from developer EA Redwood Shores, might make you change your mind. By this time in the lifespan of survival horror, there’s little that hasn’t been seen or done. Dead Space is as guilty as just about any other game in the genre, borrowing liberally from Resident Evil and other horror games (not to mention Sunshine, Event Horizon and several other films) but it does a good job of doing what it was made to do: scare the living bejesus out of you.

With the exception of pretentious Yasujiro Ozu fans and samurai aficionados, most people in this country tend to either discredit most Japanese cinema or ignore it completely. “It’s too kitschy,” or “it’s too stodgy” they will say. Well, at times, yes. But, as proven by this weekend’s Japanese Currents film festival at the Northwest Film Center, the modern Japanese film industry needs to be acknowledged as not only relevant, but at times, extremely exciting and inventive.

More than 50 friends, family and colleagues gathered Tuesday at the Simon Benson House to honor the memory of Heather Hartley, an associate professor of sociology at Portland State who died almost three weeks ago. The room was thick with grief as, one by one, those who knew Hartley best shared their memories.

It’s a good thing John Darnielle knows how to write a story. As the singer and lyricist of acoustic-guitar duo The Mountain Goats, Darnielle has built a career out of songs structured around characters and narrative–not on the strength of his voice.